Week in Review

The Democrats get the youth vote. Because the Democrats aren’t these kids’ parents. After a lifetime (i.e., high school) of their parents telling them ‘no’ after they turn 18 they turn on their parents. And start voting Democrat. Wait until you’re married before having sex? I think not, Mom & Dad. Because there isn’t anything wrong with having cheap meaningless sex with a bunch of different people. The Democrats understand this. And provide these young women with birth control and access to abortion so they can have a lot of casual sex without any consequences. Of course, a lot of this sex won’t be very good (see Devout Catholics Have Better Sex, Study Says by Elizabeth Flock posted 7/17/2013 on US News and World Report—an older article appearing in their Twitter feed this past week).

Devout, married Catholics have the best sex of any demographic group, the Family Research Council said at an event Wednesday, pointing to a collection of studies from the last several decades.

The socially conservative Christian group relied heavily on statistics from the University of Chicago’s last National Health and Social Life Survey, conducted in 1992, which found the most enjoyable and most frequent sex occurring among married people, those who attended church weekly – any church, whether Catholic or not – and people who had the least sexual partners…

The notion that Catholics have better sex isn’t a new one, especially coming from Catholics. In 1994, Andrew Greeley, a Catholic sociologist and priest, published “Sex: The Catholic Experience,” which released a litany of new statistics: 68 percent of Catholics professed to have sex at least once a week versus 56 percent of non-Catholics; 30 percent of Catholics had bought erotic underwear versus 20 percent non-Catholics; and 80 percent of devout Catholic women approved of having sex for pleasure alone.

Girls go to parties where guys ply them with alcohol. To get them drunk enough to lower their inhibitions. A Girl may want to be relaxed enough to be with a guy she likes. While a guy may just want to get her drunk so she can’t say ‘no’. One thing for sure, though, whatever happens won’t be the subject of any romance novel. It could be a scene in a porn movie. But it sure won’t end up on the big screen in a love story.

Let’s face it, any sex where being inebriated is a prerequisite just isn’t going to be that good. Or memorable. Further, it is likely to leave a woman filled with shame or regret. As she worries about what she did. With whom she did it with. And then the questions to fret over. Did she take any precautions? Is she pregnant? Did she catch a sexually transmitted disease? Did someone make a video of her while she was passed out and naked? Doing things to her? Is she going to see herself on the Internet? Will her friends and her family see her on the Internet? Her professors? Her boss? Will this come up should she decide to run for public office?

To have the same frequency of sex married women have may leave her with more feelings of shame and regret. And an emptiness. For while she is having sex a married woman is making love. For a married woman doesn’t have to get drunk to lower her inhibitions. For there are no inhibitions to lower. She doesn’t have to worry about catching an STD. And if she gets pregnant it may be because she wanted to get pregnant. Also, there is no shame and regret the day after. For a married woman is not coming home disheveled the following morning. Where her neighbors can see her wearing the same clothes she had on the night before. And see her underwear fall out of her purse while digging out her keys.

For a married woman sex is about love-making. Sharing intimate moments with the person she loves. Someone she wants to please. Just as her husband wants to please her. As well as honor her and protect her. He won’t be posting any videos of her passed out and naked on the Internet. Sure, they may leave the bathroom door open, but there’s honor and protection. As well as an active sex life spiced up with things like erotic underwear.

So what are the Democrats really doing to our young women by being anti-parents? Opening them up to a lot of shame and regret. And worse. Democrats are ruining their sex lives. For using birth control and abortion to stay unmarried only makes their sex lives less fulfilling. At least according to this study. And it’s rather ironic that the women who oppose birth control and abortion (i.e., Catholics) are having better sex lives than those who don’t. So once again their parents were right. Even when it comes to waiting until marriage to have sex. For if you do it will apparently blow your socks off.

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The Washington Post published an article on 1/22/2013 noting the difference in graduation rates among racial groups. The graduation rates for Asians, whites and blacks were 93%, 83% and 66.1%, respectively. Census data (for 2010) shows the impact of this on median family income. The median family income for people with bachelor’s degrees, a high school diploma only and those who didn’t graduate high school was $90,530, $48,637 and $31,119, respectively. The median family income for Asians, whites and blacks was $75,027, $62,545 and $38,409, respectively. And the median family income for a family with a married couple, a male householder with no spouse and a female householder with no spouse was $71,627, $41,501 and $29,770, respectively. The census data also notes the number of out-of-wedlock births for Asians, whites and blacks as 11.3%, 29.2% and 67.8%, respectively (see High School Graduation Rates, Out-of-Wedlock Births and Median Family Income posted 7/25/2013 on PITHOCRATES for source data).

The people with the highest median family income also have the lowest out-of-wedlock births. Confirming that the path towards a high-paying job is a high school diploma. A college education. Being careful NOT to have any children until you’re married. And after you graduate from college and establish a career get married and raise a family.

According to the data people who follow this general path through life will do better than those who don’t. And it all starts with the family. The stronger the family the greater the success. The greater the number of out-of-wedlock births the lesser the success. Which is why very religious people do so well. Immigrants. And the immigrant communities they make for future American-born generations.

Immigrants have little but family when they arrive in a strange new world. And the extended family they find in their immigrant communities. As they become Americans they find comfort in their family and the culture and traditions of the world they left. As they work hard to fulfill their American dream. And because they work so hard, put family first and make sure their children do well in school they tend to do very well in life (see Tiger Mom’s New Book Stirs Up Culture Wars by Beth Greenfield posted 1/6/2014 on Yahoo! Shine).

But the reality, notes the book, co-written by Chua’s husband and fellow Yale professor Jed Rubenfeld, is that “uncomfortable as it may be to talk about,” some “religious, ethnic, and national-origin groups are starkly more successful than others.” Those groups, according to the authors, are Mormons, Cuban exiles, Nigerian Americans, Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, American Jews, Iranian Americans and Lebanese Americans. And the reasons they excel, the book declares, is because of a basic “triple package” formula: a superiority complex, insecurity, and impulse control.

A Publishers Weekly review calls the book a “comprehensive, lucid psychological study,” which balances its findings with the downsides of the “triple package.” And the authors address cultural stereotyping early on in the book, explaining, “Throughout this book, we will never make a statement about any group’s economic performance or predominant cultural attitudes unless it is backed up by solid evidence, whether empirical, historical, or sociological. But when there are differences between groups, we will come out and say so.” They add, “Group generalizations turn into invidious stereotypes when they’re false, hateful, or assumed to be true of every group member. No group and no culture is monolithic…”

Many on Twitter, meanwhile, have responded angrily to early coverage of the book.

Some choice phrases on Twitter: “racist,” “awful,” “racist psychopath,” “idiot,” “nonsense,” “race baiting clap trap” and, finally, from the political organization MOMocrats, “Amy Chua trolls us all for college tuition for child number two/book number two. YAWN.”

There may be something to the “triple package.” I don’t know about the superiority complex. But I’ll buy the insecurity and impulse control. As they do tie into hard work (as they may feel they have to work harder to equal their peers who are in a familiar world and know more about that world). And making short-term sacrifices for long-term goals. Such as saving your money to buy a house to raise your family in. And then sacrificing personal consumption to plan for the future. A college education for your kids. And retirement for Mom and Dad.

The reason these people do so well has less to do with genes than having the personal philosophy that made America great. Strong family. And conservative values and traditions. They’re not super races. They just embody the best of America.

Week in Review

The left keeps saying that the Republicans have a war on women. Because they are a bunch of Christian extremist who want to take away birth control and abortion from women. They take every opportunity to attack Christianity as the great oppressor of women. Warning women of the hell they’ll be subjected to if we elect Republicans with their Christian agenda. But they will never say anything about the oppression of women under Islam. Which is very real (see Afghan woman flown to Turkey after husband ‘slices off her nose’ by Rob Crilly, Islamabad, and Zubair Babakarkhail posted 12/18/2013 on The Telegraph).

An Afghan woman has been flown to Turkey for emergency surgery after her husband sliced off her nose and lips apparently in punishment for refusing to sell her jewellery.

Sitara, 30, was found lying unconscious in her home on Friday when neighbours in Herat province were alerted by the cries of her four children.

The attack has been seized on by women’s rights campaigners as evidence that not enough is being done to protect fragile progress made since the Taliban was ousted from power in 2001…

Her mother Naseema said he was addicted to heroin and had regularly beaten her daughter in the past for failing to give birth to a son. On Friday evening she said he asked her daughter – who was engaged at the age of 11 – for money and then demanded her gold ring when she said she had no cash.

“She told him that this ring was given to her by her father – Azim did not buy it for her,” she said.

He turned violent, knocking the mother-of-four unconscious with a rock collected from outside before taking a knife to her nose and top lip, said Naseema. It was all witnessed by her four young daughters, aged three to 12…

A United Nations paper published earlier this month showed reported violence against women was on the rise – an increase of 28% in the past year.

In November, officials floated the idea of reintroducing stoning for the adultery before quickly withdrawing it amid an international outcry.

If anyone has a war on women it’s Islam. Some will say these are isolated incidences and don’t represent the true Islamic faith. But these isolated incidences far outnumber the zero number of Christians cutting off women’s noses and lips. Or stoning women for adultery. But you never hear the left who is supposedly fighting for women in the war on women express the same level of outrage over these abuses of Islam that they reserve for Christians. All they do is help Islam attack Christianity. Making Islam’s power greater. Putting more women at risk for these horrible abuses.

Will Democrats ever put their politics aside to protect women from real dangers? Or will they continue to exploit women for their politics? And create phantom dangers where none exist? As they will sacrifice anything for their insatiable quest for power?

Women are oppressed by Islam and they remain silent. Calling Christianity the real danger. Which is more tolerant of birth control, abortion (and homosexuality) than Islam is by far. But they attack Christianity. And not Islam. Because the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Even though this ‘friend’ will oppress them in a heartbeat if given the chance. For Democrats may like Islam because they annoy Christians but Muslims hate everything liberals stand for. And would prefer to eradicate them like all enemies of Islam.

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If you’ve ever watched The Five you’ve probably heard Greg Gutfeld (libertarian/quasi conservative) blame all of our woes on liberal college professors. And heard Bob Beckel (liberal) say Greg Gutfeld is full of excrement. And that whenever they play a video of a leftist professor saying something anti-capitalist/socialist/communist Beckel (the one liberal in the group of five) yells that they only put on liberal extremists. Never a conservative extremist. Which he said there are just as many as liberal extremists teaching our kids in college.

As part of the National Religious Curriculum together with the multicultural community in which we live, it is a statutory requirement for Primary School aged children to experience and learn about different cultures.

The workshop is at Staffordshire University and will give your child the opportunity to explore other religions. Children will be looking at religious artifacts, similar to those that would be on display in a museum. They will not be partaking in any religious practices.

Refusal to allow your child to attend this trip will result in a Racial Discrimination note being attached to your child’s education record, which will remain on this file throughout their school career.

England has an official religion. The Church of England. Which is Protestant. That is, Christian. And it has a long history of being Christian. Which makes this school action rather remarkable. For it basically is telling British children to forget their culture and tradition. And observe the greatness of people who are not British.

When an American high school choir wants to sing a Christmas carol referencing Jesus of Nazareth, who the Christmas holiday celebrates, the school authorities shut it down. But they make a trip to expose students to other religions mandatory. Why? Because liberals hate Christianity. And love anything that disparages Christianity. Which is why they will brand any student who doesn’t attend a field trip that enshrines other religions (while banning high school choirs from singing Christmas carols referencing Jesus of Nazareth) as a racist. Even though religion transcends race.

Liberals will say a cross submerged in urine is art. But children not learning the glory of Islam and other non-Christian religions is showing an extreme lack of respect to those religions. And is worthy of branding those children as racist. Even though religion transcends race.

Bob Beckel is a Christian. And is a vocal opponent of the anti-Christian acts of militant Islam. Even condemning the whole Islamic faith as no one in that faith condemns these heinous acts. Yet he fails to see the anti-Christian element in our public schools and universities. Or refuses to see it. For although Beckel is a Christian liberals in general don’t like Christian morals that frown upon premarital sex and abortion. Things liberals are all for. As are our public schools and universities. As is evidenced by their handing out of free birth control. And providing access to abortion services. Even without parental consent wherever they can. And this while one of those religions they want to expose our kids to, Islam, won’t let their women out of the house unless they’re covered from head to toe and in the company of a male family member. There’s no premarital sex or abortion for them. But this is a religion we must show tolerance to. While showing no tolerance to Jesus of Nazareth during the holiday celebrating His birth. Is that because conservatives are in control of the school curriculum? No. It’s because liberals are. So Gutfeld is right. And Beckel is wrong.

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When people enter economic exchanges voluntarily everybody wins. For example, let’s say one person has a hundred dollars of spare cash. And another person owns a mountain bicycle that sells for $350 new. The one with the money wants to buy a mountain bicycle. The one with the mountain bicycle needs cash and wants to sell the bike. These two people meet. And exchange the $100 for the bicycle. And both walk away with something they valued more. The person originally with the $100 valued the bicycle more than the $100. And the person originally with the bicycle valued the $100 more than the bicycle. Each person wins in this voluntary economic exchange.

Now contrast that to a managed economy. Where a few decide for everyone else. Such as in socialism. Or communism. Say, in the former Soviet Union. Where the economic planners decide to make more tractor parts and less toilet paper and laundry detergent. Resulting in shelves full of tractor parts no one wanted to buy. And empty shelves where there was once toilet paper and laundry detergent. As you can see, when you have forced economic exchanges no one wins.

Countries with economic systems based on free market capitalism where people enter economic exchanges voluntarily have historically had the highest standards of living. Whereas countries with managed economic systems have had the lowest standards of living. Liberty and prosperity are synonymous with the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. Which were once all part of the British Empire. Which ruled the world and kept the peace for a hundred years or so. The Pax Britannica. She was able to do this because of her wealth. Generated from free market capitalism. The rule of law. Representative government. Sound money. And free trade. Things that today give these nations immigration problems. Because everyone wants to go to these nations for a better life.

In capitalist nations people live better because there is a profit incentive. Whereas the countries these immigrants left typically put people before profits. Where instead of letting market forces set prices and allocate limited resources that have alternative uses the government decides. Like they did in the former Soviet Union. And the more government interferes with these market forces the more these economic decisions become political. Where friends of the ruling power get those limited resources first and at favorable prices. Allowing them and the ruling powers to profit handsomely from this political favoritism. At the expense of the people who have to do with less.

The profit incentive puts people first. Because in free market capitalism market forces are the people. Hundreds of millions of people coming together to make voluntary economic exchanges. Where each individual person looks out for his or her best interests. But when a ‘caring’ government manages the economy to put the people first that government interferes with those market forces. And goes against the will of the people. Making the people worse off. Which is why immigration is always from a country where there is less free market capitalism to a country where there is more free market capitalism. Because the quality of life increases with increasing amounts of capitalism. So we should be careful what we ask for when we ask to put people first. Even when the Pope joins the ‘put the people first’ choir (see Pope condemns idolatry of cash in capitalism by Lizzy Davies posted 9/22/2013 on theguardian).

Pope Francis has called for a global economic system that puts people and not “an idol called money” at its heart, drawing on the hardship of his immigrant family as he sympathised with unemployed workers in a part of Italy that has suffered greatly from the recession…

“Where there is no work, there is no dignity,” he said, in ad-libbed remarks after listening to three locals, including an unemployed worker who spoke of how joblessness “weakens the spirit”. But the problem went far beyond the Italian island, said Francis, who has called for wholesale reform of the financial system…

Sardinia, one of Italy’s autonomous regions with a population of 1.6 million, has suffered particularly badly during the economic crisis, with an unemployment rate of 20%, eight points higher than the national average, and youth unemployment of 51%.

Last summer the island’s hardship became national news when Stefano Meletti, a 49-year-old miner, slashed his wrists on television during a protest aimed at keeping the Carbosulcis coal mine open.

There was one other thing these nations born of the British Empire shared. Judeo-Christian values. They lived by the Ten Commandments. And the Golden Rule. The good Christians of the British Empire followed the teachings of Christ. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” These Judeo-Christian values went hand-in-hand with free market capitalism. It’s what made us choose to live by the rule of law. To honor the contracts we made with one another. To voluntarily enter economic exchanges instead of just stealing and pillaging our neighbors.

Money doesn’t have value. It’s a temporary storage of value. It is our human capital that has value. Our ability to create things that have value. Things that other people will voluntarily enter into economic exchanges to trade for with things of value they created. Whether it be a physical good. Or money from a paycheck they earned creating value for an employer who uses it to produce a service or good.

Capitalists don’t worship money. For money only makes those economic exchanges more efficient. By eliminating the search costs of the barter system. It’s human capital that capitalists are interested in. This is what they worship. People. Unlocking the latent talent in all of us. To bring incredible things into existence. Sanitation. Waste water treatment plants. New farming advancements. Coal-fired power plants. Things that allowed greater groups of people to live together in growing cities. Where we have food, clean water and shelter. Things we take for granted in capitalists nations. Things that are luxuries in North Korea. An anti-capitalist country that puts people before profits. Where people worship the ruling dictator (primarily to avoid imprisonment, torture and death). And the only people that do well are those close to the ruling power.

We don’t need a new financial system. We just need to return to what it was before governments intervened into the free market economy to put people first. Before we completely forget the Ten Commandments. And the Golden Rule. For once we use the power of government to nullify contracts to help their crony friends we no longer have a nation of laws. But one of political favors. Where the friends of power do well. While those with no power live at the mercy of those in power.

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The political left hates Christianity. For their opposition to casual sex. Birth control (where they primarily hate the Catholics). The morning after-pill. And, of course, abortion. They say Christians hate women. That they have a war on women. That they are no better than the Taliban. Which is why the political left bends over backwards to appease Islam. Not because they like the religion. But because Islam doesn’t like Christianity. A little of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Despite Islam doing things like this (see Marte Deborah Dalelv: Norwegian woman’s16-month sentence in Dubai after rape claim draws outrage by The Associated Press posted 7/21/2013 on CBS News).

A Norwegian woman sentenced to 16 months in jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after she reported an alleged rape said Friday she decided to speak out in hopes of drawing attention to the risks of outsiders misunderstanding the Islamic-influenced legal codes in this cosmopolitan city.

The case has drawn outrage from rights groups and others in the West since the 24-year-old interior designer was sentenced Wednesday. It also highlights the increasingly frequent tensions between the United Arab Emirates’ international atmosphere and its legal system, which is strongly influenced by Islamic traditions in a nation where foreign workers and visitors greatly outnumber locals.

That’s right. In Dubai if a man rapes a woman they charge the woman with a crime. For having sex outside of marriage. Strange how in all their campaign messages during the last election we never heard the left talk about Christians doing this in the United States. Why wouldn’t they do this? For it would be a powerful message. Oh, that’s right, because the Christians don’t charge women with having sex outside of marriage after they’ve been raped. Even with their ‘war on women’.

Christian women can use birth control. Even some ‘Catholics’ are pro-abortion. Like Ted Kennedy was. So women are far freer here in the United States than they are in Dubai. Yet you never hear the left attack Islam. They only attack Christianity. For they may jail women for having sex outside of marriage in Muslim nations. But they don’t have a war on women like the Christians do in America. Which is about the only thing you hear the political left complain about when it comes to religion. Not the oppression and abuse of women in some Muslim nations.

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American English is now the language international of aviation. Not British English. But American English. Because so many people speak it in the world. Which is why international pilots must be able to speak American English. So there is a common language for pilots and air traffic controllers to converse in. Making it easier to safely route airborne aircraft between countries.

What was another international language? Before there was a United States? What was the international language of diplomacy. Was it British English? No. It was French. The diplomats of the world spoke French. Making France a center of international diplomacy. Which is why if you look up ‘Treaty of Paris’ you will see more than one entry. France united Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire under Charlemagne. Helped made Europe Christian. And was a leading player in the Enlightenment.

French culture refined the world. And their food and drink made the world a more enjoyable place. In a word France was great. And being French meant something. Today the French are still fiercely proud of their history. And their culture. So proud that they have even expunged American words from their language. To keep the French language pure. Their French culture pure. So they take great offense when people come to their country and try to change their ways (see Second night of riots in Paris over ‘burka ban’ fine by Peter Allen posted 7/21/2013 on The Telegraph).

On both Friday and Saturday night heavily armed riot police could be seen taking part in running skirmishes with youths, while there were reports of flash guns being used to disperse the crowd.

The violence is the latest in a string of incidents related to the controversial “burka ban” which was introduced across France in 2011.

It means that women found guilty of wearing veils in public can be fined the equivalent of £130 and be forced to attend citizenship classes.

The French have no problem with people immigrating to their country. They have just one requirement. If you move into France then you must be French. That is you assimilate to the culture you join. You don’t try to assimilate the French into the culture you left. The way immigration should be. For if your country is so bad that you leave it for a better life you don’t bring what you’re leaving behind with you.

France made Europe Christian. And held to their Catholicism all during the Protestant Reformation and the religious wars that followed. It was hard to find more devout Catholics than the French. Then they made France secular during the French Revolution. As their religion had grown into an oppressor of the people. So the French don’t take kindly to public displays of religion. Especially any that infringe on the rights of the people. Choosing to wear a crucifix is one thing. Forcing women to wear a burka is another. That does not define the liberté of French Society. And doesn’t assimilate these immigrants into the French Culture.

So while the French are trying to save their culture the Americans are doing nothing to preserve theirs. They have porous borders. They don’t require immigrants to speak English. We must speak to them in their language. And we attack the religions of our Founders. While treating the Muslim faith with great reverence. Bending over backwards to accommodate the immigrant culture. While doing nothing to preserve the home culture. For apparently the Americans don’t love their culture as much as the French love theirs.

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Jimmy Carter was a very weak president. When he took over fighting the Cold War he stopped fighting it. Choosing détente instead. Making nice with our enemies. And weakened the U.S. military. It got so bad that the Soviets didn’t believe he had the guts to launch his nuclear weapons. Thinking that perhaps MAD (mutually assured destruction) wasn’t so assured anymore. And began formulating a nuclear first-strike plan. Bringing the United States close to nuclear war. Because our enemies viewed him as weak.

The highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer ever to defect to the West claims in a new book that anti-American Islamic terrorism had its roots in a secret 1970s-era KGB plot to harm but the United States and Israel by seeding Muslim countries with carefully targeted propaganda.

Yuri Andropov, the KGB chief for 15 years before he became the Soviet premier, sent hundreds of agents and thousands of copies of propaganda literature to Muslim countries.

‘By 1972,’ according to the book, ‘Andropov’s disinformation machinery was working around the clock to persuade the Islamic world that Israel and the United States intended to transform the rest of the world into a Zionist fiefdom…’

Andropov began his leadership of the KGB just months before the 1967 Six-Day War between Arabs and Israelis, in which Israel humiliated the key Soviet allies Syria and Egypt. And he decided to settle the score by training Palestinian militants to hijack El Al airplanes and bomb sites in Jerusalem.

But more shocking, Andropov commissioned the first Arabic translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a Russian-forged 1905 propaganda book that alleged Jews were plotting to take over Europe – and were being aided by the United States…

Kennedy-era Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev’s disinformation campaigns ‘widened the gap between Christianity and Judaism,’ according to the authors. And ‘Andropov’s disinformation turned the Islamic world against the United States and ignited the international terrorism that threatens us today.’

This is the enemy that Jimmy Carter was trying to make nice to. One that was widening the gap between Christianity and Judaism. And one that was turning the Islamic world against the United States. Which the Soviets did well. Giving us the mess we have today.

The Soviet Union was officially an atheist state. Who shut down the Russian Orthodox Church. As they wanted no other powers or influences over their people’s lives. Which is why they had no problem putting the major world religions at war with each other. And explains why today the Russians always seem to fall on the side against the U.S. and Israel. For they worked hard to foment that anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment. And Vladimir Putin was once KGB. The machine that created this sentiment. And apparently he still wants to collect the dividends from their old Soviet-era allies.

So it appears that the War on Terror is nothing more than the Cold War redux. It’s not a rogue power that filled a vacuum left by the Soviet collapse. But a power that the Soviets created maturing at the time of the Soviet collapse. Too late to help them not lose the Cold War to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. But perhaps not too late to further expand Russian power over their Soviet-era allies. Thanks to that anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment inflaming the Islamic world. The Soviets made them our enemy. Not any YouTube video. Or George W. Bush. And no amount of making nice to them is going to change that.

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The American left is not a fan of Christianity. They don’t like their moralizing. Their opposition to abortion. Even the Catholic’s opposition to birth control. So they attack and belittle Christians every chance they get. And they say and do some pretty horrible things. The more outrageous or blasphemous the more the left seems to enjoy it. But they don’t dare criticize Islam. Which Christianity pales against when it comes to moralizing, birth control, abortion and the brutal oppression of women (see Bill Maher hammers Islam: ‘It’s the liberals here who don’t quite get it’ by Jeff Poor posted 6/22/2013 on The Daily Caller).

“The problem is, the Arab Spring kind of turned into the Arab Winter,” Maher said. “And Saudi Arabia, I mean, is the most conservative of all. As people criticize me for what I say about the Muslims. I love all people. And it’s funny because the people that come up to me privately say, ‘Bill, I’m with you about the Muslims.’ It’s the American Muslims. It’s the liberals here who don’t quite get it. We’re not criticizing people. We’re criticizing a belief system that turns people into something we wish they wouldn’t be.”

But he also observed that compared to other religions, Islam gets a pass on some of its practices.

“But, you know, Mecca is the capital of the country,” he continued. “And they routinely put people to death … the religious capital, but it’s equivalent to like the Vatican, right — with Catholicism. And, if at the Vatican, they were putting people to death for homosexuality and apostasy, and, you know, adultery — things like that, I feel that there would be a big outcry. I feel that liberals would be upset about that, and it is the center of the religion. It’s a ‘mecca.’”

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And as long as Christianity is around some on the left will tolerate Islam no matter what they do. Even the feminists. And those who support gay rights. They’ll attack Christianity for every transgression, real or imagined. But they won’t criticize Islam. Even though if given the choice these people would choose to live under Christianity over Islam. For while Christianity may moralize against them. They’re not publicly executing anyone. At worst they just have to listen to the Christians about how they’re going to burn in hell for whatever ‘sin’ they’re engaging in. Which even they will have to concede is a lot more pleasant than being beheaded or stoned to death.

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South Koreans have lit a Christmas tree-shaped tower near the tense border with North Korea for the first time in two years following North Korea’s rocket launch…

Pyongyang views the tower as propaganda warfare, though it has not yet responded to this year’s lighting…

The tree wasn’t lit last year after officials asked Christians to refrain from doing so to avoid tension following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il last December.

The North Korean government really hates Christmas. As do all communists. Who are officially atheists. As the state doesn’t want anyone worshipping anything but them. And they don’t want any moral restrains on their abuses of power. If they want to torture and kill someone they don’t want anyone, or any god, telling them that it’s wrong to do that. Especially the Prince of Peace. Jesus. In a country that has a military-first policy. Where they will let people starve to death in a famine so they can feed their military. And do.

The North Korean leaders no doubt know history. They saw what happened in Poland. President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher supported a little labor movement in Poland. Along with another supporter of peace and freedom from oppression. Pope John Paul II. A Pole. Who supported Lech Walesa. The leader of Solidarity. Who lead Poland out from underneath Soviet oppression. And into a free market economy. Which is the last thing the North Korean leaders want. Which is why a Christmas tree on the border really bothers them. It may give their people hope.